use the highly configurability of Illume to simulate EWMH interaction, for example with global shortcut to close/kill window, toggle fullscreen, this needs more key events, the topic is discussed in Better handling of AUX/Power buttons

Matchbox

Matchbox is the "legacy" window manager in the embedded world, very light, a bit older then other solutions.

Pro:

sys tray specification compliant

EWMH compliant, so you may write your software to drive it

very light

well tested

simple theming

good documentation

Cons:

with default settings it's not finger friendly

not easy to configure, some parameters have to be passed on the command line

some features are experimental, but it seems they are quite stable

the major part of applets does not work on freerunner (battery for example)there is another issue with mb-applet-battery, it suspends the display, breaking fso idle notifier set state busy call to set full brightness, the applet should be patched to use fso to request battery status and to not dim the display

Workarounds/issues/todo:

to make it finger friendly you need a specific theme, you may use the one in Hackable:1

for good interaction you have to use EWMH software, neod is one of them, but it is not FSO compatible, and use hardware directly

the matchbox-desktop application launcher has some usability issues

we should think to write a new launcher and a fso-compatible neod to improve user experience.

use the highly configurability of Illume to simulate EWMH interaction, for example with global shortcut to close/kill window, toggle fullscreen, this needs more key events, the topic is discussed in Better handling of AUX/Power buttons

Matchbox

Matchbox is the "legacy" window manager in the embedded world, very light, a bit older then other solutions.

Pro:

sys tray specification compliant

EWMH compliant, so you may write your software to drive it

very light

well tested

simple theming

good documentation

Cons:

with default settings it's not finger friendly

not easy to configure, some parameters have to be passed on the command line

some features are experimental, but it seems they are quite stable

the major part of applets does not work on freerunner (battery for example)there is another issue with mb-applet-battery, it suspends the display, breaking fso idle notifier set state busy call to set full brightness, the applet should be patched to use fso to request battery status and to not dim the display

Workarounds/issues/todo:

to make it finger friendly you need a specific theme, you may use the one in Hackable:1

for good interaction you have to use EWMH software, neod is one of them, but it is not FSO compatible, and use hardware directly

the matchbox-desktop application launcher has some usability issues

we should think to write a new launcher and a fso-compatible neod to improve user experience.